[R-lang] Re: Including IPA fonts in plots?

[Adam Albright]

I've always had success by including a 'family' argument, to make sure I'm using a font that includes unicode, e.g.,: 

plot(1:2,1:2)
text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ",family="DoulosSIL")

--Adam



On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Levy, Roger wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Has anyone had unqualified success in rendering IPA symbols in R?  graphs I've had trouble; within the R.app GUI on OS X, the commands
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>> plot(1:2,1:2)
>> text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ") # in case it's not rendered properly in your email client, the character is the wedge in UTF-8
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> give just a box, and I get even worse failure if I try to create a Postscript or PDF file:
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>> postscript("test.ps") # same error ensues if I use pdf("test.pdf") here instead
>> plot(1:2,1:2)
>> text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ")
> Warning messages:
> 1: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>  conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <ca>
> 2: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>  conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <8c>
> 3: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>  font metrics unknown for Unicode character U+028c
> 4: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>  conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <ca>
> 5: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>  conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <8c>
> 
> Interesting, ash (æ) renders fine on all graphics devices
> 
> Any suggestions would be very welcome!
> 
> (Stefan Evert suggested a while back that IPA fonts should just work within the R.app GUI for OS X, but I haven't found this to be the case.)
> 
> Best & many thanks in advance,
> 
> Roger
> 
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> Roger Levy                      Email: rlevy@ling.ucsd.edu
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